On Jan 6, 2011, at 4:49 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Am 06.01.2011 03:01, schrieb Allan McRae:
There is also a 2 year old feature request in the bugtracker to replace syslog-ng by rsyslog (currently in community repo): https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12314
There is a trend of implementing everything just because someone requests it. I have yet to see any good reason to switch away from syslog-ng as default. This is Arch. If you really think syslog-ng doesn't do it for you, just install rsyslogd. What does the default matter to you if you know better anyway?
If you ask people, I bet you'll get as many votes for rsyslogd as for syslog-ng. You'll probably also get even more people saying they don't care.
As the guy who was working through all this info and votes, I can confirm that Thomas is completely right. I did not find sufficient motivation for the switch after long consideration.
Good point. Anyone want to take a look at syslog-ng vs rsyslog?
FWIW, our friends over at Arch Server have taken the step of having rsyslog in their 'base' group.
And why did they do this?